161. VTSOPHIA WEB PAGES Anthroposophy, Tomberg, and catholicism, including correspondence with Marie Steiner. Esoteric Christianity, spiritual geometry, Christian hermeticism, and meditations on the Sepher Yetzirah. http://www.vermontel.net/~vtsophia/

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162. Sacred Arts Of Haitian Vodou | Catholicism | American Museum Of Natural History The Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou exhibition, hosted by the American Museum of Natural History from October 1998 until January 1999, explored the arts and http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/vodou/roots1.html

All Africans had to be baptized into the Catholic Church according to the colonial slave code. Forced into conversion, Africans found many correspondences between their ancestral religions and the rites and images of Catholicism. So Catholic images, especially of the saints, were freely appropriated to honor African deities. The merging of symbols grew more intense after the French fled Haiti in 1804, abandoning their churches to the religious imagination of their former slaves. The influence of Catholic art and ritual on Vodou remains dramatically visible today. Both share the same ritual calendar. Vodou ceremonies start with Catholic prayers. The lwa are known as often by the names of Catholic saints as they are by their African names. Little in Catholic practice is alien from service to the lwa. 'Crucifixion' by Michel Sinvil Flag (drapo) for Saint Pierre by Silva Joseph

163. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Hermengild The son of an Arian Visigothic king. His mother and wife were Catholic, and he converted to catholicism, and resisted Arianism. He was beheaded in 585. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07276a.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... H > St. Hermengild A B C D ... Z St. Hermengild Date of birth unknown; d. 13 April, 585. Leovigild, the Arian King of the Visigoths (569-86), had two sons, Hermengild and Reccared, by his first marriage with the Catholic Princess Theodosia. Hermengild married, in 576, Ingundis, a Frankish Catholic princess, the daughter of Sigebert and Brunhilde. Led by his own inclination, and influenced by his wife as well as by the instructions of St. Leander of Seville, he entered the Catholic fold. Leovigild's second wife, Goswintha, a fanatical Arian , hated her daughter-in-law and sought by ill-treatment to force her to abandon the Catholic Faith. Hermengild had accordingly withdrawn, with his father's sanction, to Andalusia, and had taken his wife with him. But when Leovigild learned of his son's conversion he summoned him back to Toledo, which command Hermengild did not obey. The fanatical Arianism of his step-mother, and his father's severe treatment of Catholics in Spain, stirred him to take up arms in protection of his oppressed co-religionists and in defence of his own rights. At the same time he formed an alliance with the Byzantines. Leovigold took the field against his son in 582, prevailed on the Byzantines to betray Hermengild for a sum of 30,000 gold solidi , besieged the latter in Seville in 583, and captured the city after a siege of nearly two years. Hermengild sought refuge in a church at Cordova, whence he was enticed by the false promises of Leovigild, who stripped him in camp of his royal raiment and banished him to Valencia (584). His wife, Ingundis, fled with her son to Africa, where she died, after which the boy was given, by order of Emperor Mauritius, into the hands of his grandmother Brunhilde. We are not fully informed as to Hermengild's subsequent fate.

164. Gay And Lesbian Catholicism Simple catholicism by Fr. Phil BloomSimple catholicism. This website treats the three most basic questions. Does God exist? Is Jesus God? Did Jesus found the Church? http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/gay.htm

Gay and Lesbian Catholicism Art by Robert Lentz Courtesy of Trinity Stores "If you say someone is disordered, that means there is something wrong with that person at the root of their being. I can't believe God would make someone who is wrong from the very beginning." Most Rev. Thomas Gumbleton, auxiliary bishop of Detroit Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons 1986 document issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The Catholic Church's Teaching on Homosexuality Backgrounder by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Dignity, Love, Life Statement on Homosexuality from the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference, 1986 People in Homosexual Relationships Statement on Homosexuality from the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference, 2000 Always Our Children A pastoral message to parents of homosexual children and suggestions for pastoral ministers. A statement of the Bishops Committee on Marriage and Family, National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church 1999 pastoral statement by Bishop Joseph V. Adamec of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania

165. ON REBIRTH: Buddhism And Reincarnation Exerpted from Paul Williams, The Unexpected Way On Converting from Buddhism to catholicism. http://www.angelfire.com/realm/bodhisattva/rebirth.html

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166. 2000 Summary Above are the categories of reports on anticatholicism. Below is the executive summary of the report on anti-catholicism in 2000. http://www.catholicleague.org/2000report/summary2000.html

Catholic League's 2000 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism ACTIVISTS ARTS BUSINESS EDUCATION ... MISCELLANEOUS Above are the categories of reports on anti-Catholicism. Please choose the topic that you are interested in by clicking on the appropriate link. Below is the executive summary of the report on anti-Catholicism in 2000. Click to order the Catholic League's 2000 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism Executive Summary S ome of the highlights of 2000 are recounted here, drawn from the various thematic sections that make up this report. The year 2000 saw a presidential election. The Catholic League is not a political organization, nor does it align itself with any political party or agenda. However, the Catholic League speaks out when the political process or government agencies, whatever their affiliation, interfere with the rights of Catholics or the Catholic Church. It can be over a simple matter, such as in Shirley, MA where inmates in a state prison had their rosary beads confiscated. Or it could be on the national scene, where a Catholic priest was denied the position as House chaplain. The House chaplain issue actually began in 1999 and was not resolved until March 2000 with the selection of Father Daniel Coughlin, vicar for priests of the Archdiocese of Chicago. An 18-member House committee (nine Republicans and nine Democrats) presented three finalists for the chaplain vacancy to the House leadership, with the top choice being Father Timothy O'Brien, a Marquette University professor.

167. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ven. John Finch A layman, raised Protestant. As a young man he converted to catholicism, married, served as a catechist, and made his home a center of missionary activity. Captured, he was tortured and imprisoned for three years before being martyred in 1584. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06076b.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... F > Ven. John Finch A B C D ... Z Ven. John Finch A martyr, b. about 1548; d. 20 April, 1584. He was a yeoman of Eccleston, Lancashire, and a member of a well-known old Catholic family, but he appears to have been brought up in schism. When he was twenty years old he went to London where he spent nearly a year with some cousins at Inner Temple. While there he was forcibly struck by the contrast between Protestantism and Catholicism in practice and determined to lead a Catholic life. Failing to find advancement in London he returned to Lancashire where he was reconciled to Catholic Church. He then married and settled down, his house becoming a centre of missionary work, he himself harbouring priests and aiding them in every way, besides acting as catechist. His zeal drew on him the hostility of the authorities, and at Christmas , 1581, he was entrapped into bringing a priest, George Ostliffe, to a place where both were apprehended. It was given out that Finch, having betrayed the priest and other Catholics, had taken refuge with the Earl of Derby, but in fact, he was kept in the earl's house as a prisoner, sometimes tortured and sometimes bribed in order to pervert him and induce him to give information. This failing, he was removed to the Fleet prison at Manchester and afterwards to the House of Correction. When he refused to go to the Protestant church he was dragged there by the feet, his head beating on the stones. For many months he lay in a damp dungeon, ill-fed and ill-treated, desiring always that he might be brought to trial and martyrdom. After three years' imprisonment, he was sent to be tried at Lancaster. There he was brought to trial with three priests on 18 April, 1584. He was found guilty and, 20 April, having spent the night in converting some condemned felons, he suffered with Ven. James Bell at Lancaster. The cause of his beatification with those of the other English Martyrs was introduced by decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, 4 Dec., 1886.

168. 1995 Report On Anti-Catholicism Below is the executive summary of the report on anticatholicism in 1995. The second annual issue report on anti-catholicism includes incidents that merit http://www.catholicleague.org/1995report/report95.htm

Catholic League's 1995 Report on Anti-Catholicism ACTIVISTS ARTS CARTOONS COMMERCE ... MEDIA Above are the categories of reports on anti-Catholicism. Please choose the topic that you are interested in by clicking on the appropriate link. Below is the executive summary of the report on anti-Catholicism in 1995. The second annual issue report on anti-Catholicism includes incidents that merit inclusion in a report of this kind. In some cases, the anti-Catholicism is blatant, in other cases the bigotry is less obvious. But all of them are offensive. Executive Summary B efore introducing the evidence, a few words are in order regarding some of the highlights of the year. While it is true that there are activist organizations that are clearly aligned against the Catholic Church (Catholics for a Free Choice comes quickly to mind), more common are activist organizations that pursue an agenda that clashes with the public positions of the Catholic Church. Such was the case with the Population Institute. In the fall of 1995, the U.N. Beijing Conference on Women addressed issues impacting on population growth, as well as matters that were exclusive to the concerns of women. In the period before the conference, the Population Institute, a Washington based population control group, mailed an appeal for money that implied that the Vatican was illegitimately engaged in pursuing its positions in the U.N. The Holy See, the Population Institute said, was acting as "an anti-contraceptive Gestapo."

169. Humanism (Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture) Renaissance humanists (Christian) and catholicism. From the Library of Congress, US. http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/humanism.html

The Library of Congress Exhibitions HOME Exhibition Sections: Introduction The Vatican Library Archaeology Humanism ... Credits HUMANISM The great intellectual movement of Renaissance Italy was humanism. The humanists believed that the Greek and Latin classics contained both all the lessons one needed to lead a moral and effective life and the best models for a powerful Latin style. They developed a new, rigorous kind of classical scholarship, with which they corrected and tried to understand the works of the Greeks and Romans, which seemed so vital to them. Seeking the Wisdom of the Ancients Scholarship Challenges Tradition Linguistic Correctness Confronting the Original Texts Seeking the Wisdom of the Ancients Costanzo Felici, Historia de coniuratione Catilinae (History of the Catilinarian Conspiracy) In Latin Dedication copy for Leo X Early sixteenth century Pius II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini), Commentaries In Latin Autograph Fifteenth century Although humanists had thronged the papal court since the beginning of the century, Pius II was the first real humanist to sit in the chair of Peter. Born in Siena as Enea Silvio Piccolomini, he acquired a reputation as a diplomat, belletrist, and womanizer, and was crowned poet laureate by the Emperor Frederick in 1442. After serving the emperor and the anti-Roman Council of Basel, Piccolomini joined the Roman camp in 1446. He became a cardinal in 1456 and in 1458 was elected pope. As pope, the only work of scholarship he was able to continue was his "Commentaries," a remarkably frank autobiography in which he put his passions and prejudices on full view. In the passage shown here, Pius expresses his bitter contempt for the French, who had been unwilling to join his crusade against the Great Turk.

170. Why Only Catholicism Can Make Protestantism Work: Louis Bouyer On The Reformatio An internet library of journal .., essays, book excerpts, and other texts chosen for their objective, concise, and clear presentation of Catholic teachings, http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/apologetics/ap0097.html

Home Email This Article Print Why Only Catholicism Can Make Protestantism Work: Louis Bouyer on the Reformation MARK BRUMLEY Louis Bouyer contends that the only way to safeguard the positive principles of the Reformation is through the Catholic Church. For only in the Catholic Church are the positive principles the Reformation affirmed found without the negative elements the Reformers mistakenly affixed to them. Martin Luther Interpreting the Reformation is complicated business. But like many complicated things, it can be simplified sufficiently well that even non-experts can get the gist of it. Here's what seems a fairly accurate but simplified summary of the issue: The break between Catholics and Protestants was either a tragic necessity (to use Jaroslav Pelikan's expression) or it was tragic because unnecessary. Many Protestants see the Catholic/Protestant split as a tragic necessity, although the staunchly anti-Catholic kind of Protestant often sees nothing tragic about it. Or if he does, the tragedy is that there ever was such a thing as the Roman Catholic Church that the Reformers had to separate from. His motto is "Come out from among them" and five centuries of Christian disunity has done nothing to cool his anti-Roman fervor. Yet for most Protestants, even for most conservative Protestants, this is not so. They believe God "raised up" Luther and the other Reformers to restore the Gospel in its purity. They regret that this required a break with Roman Catholics (hence the tragedy) but fidelity to Christ, on their view, demanded it (hence the necessity).

171. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ven. John Ogilvie Scotsman, raised Calvinist, converted to catholicism, became a Jesuit priest and missionary to his native land, was tortured and martyred in 1615. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11223b.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... O > Ven. John Ogilvie A B C D ... Z Ven. John Ogilvie Eldest son of Walter Ogilvie, of Drum, near Keith, Scotland, b. 1580; d. 10 March, 1615. Educated as a Calvinist , he was received into the Church at Louvain by Father Cornelius a Lapide. Becoming a Jesuit at the age of seventeen he was ordained priest in 1613, and at his own request was sent on the perilous Scottish mission. He landed in Scotland in November, 1613, and during nine months reconciled many with the Church in Edinburgh and Glasgow. He was betrayed in the latter city, but, during a long imprisonment, no tortures could force him to name any Catholics. Though his legs were cruelly crushed, and he was kept awake for nine nights by being continually pricked by needles, scarcely a sigh escaped him. Under searching examinations, his patience, courage, and gaiety won the admiration of his very judges especially of the Protestant Archbishop Spottiswood but he was condemned as a traitor and hanged at Glasgow. The customary beheading and quartering were omitted owing to undisguised popular sympathy, and his body was hurriedly buried in the churchyard of Glasgow cathedral. He was declared venerable in the seventeenth century. Authentic account of Imprisonment and Martyrdom of Fr. John Ogilvie, S.J., translated from a Latin pamphlet (Douai, 1615; London, 1877); Forbed-Leith, Narratives of Scottish Catholics (Edinburgh, 1885); a Lapide, Comment. in Isaiam, c. 1, v. 7.

172. Blogs For Bush: Anti-Catholicism Alive And Well Anticatholicism Alive and Well. As our Jonathan over at GOP Bloggers noted, catholicism is both feared and despised by some in the United States http://www.blogsforbush.com/mt/archives/004954.html

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173. HOOM - Controversial Groups Discussion of this group which combines Rosicrucianism with Roman catholicism and Eastern Orthodox traditions. http://www.pokrov.org/controversial/hoom.html

Pokrov.org Up Welcome Abuse News 2004-2005 ... Web updates 2004 Christ the Saviour Brotherhood (AKA St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, the Valaam Society or Archdiocese of Vasilupolis, Holy Order of MANS) Background Summary of HOOM prepared by Melanie Sakoda and Pokrov.org (September 2003) Cult Awareness Groups that have written reports on the Holy Order of MANS: Bob Larson, Larson's Book of Cults Spiritual Counterfeits Project Positive Action Center P ositive Action Center: Holy Order of MANS Report Positive Action Center: HOOM Report by a Christian pastor (Copies of both of these reports are available from Pokrov.org Articles: Enfants Terribles: The Challenge of Sectarian Converts to Ethnic Orthodox Churches in the United States By Phillip Charles Lucas Nova Religio 2003, Vol. 7, No.2 pp 5-23 Behind the Doors of Repentance July 9, 2001. By Melanie Jula Sakoda. OrthodoxNews.com The Untold Details of the Journey of the Holy Order of MANS/Christ the Saviour Brotherhood and the St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood into the Canonical Orthodox Church Holy Enablers January 12, 2000. By Cappy Larson. Letter published in the

174. Why Catholicism? Why catholicism? Hundreds of Catholics each year are led to doubt their faith So, why embrace catholicism? Because it was founded by the Son of God, http://www.transporter.com/apologia/why_cath.htm

175. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ven. James Duckett Convert to catholicism, publisher and bookseller, martyred in 1601. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05182b.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... D > Ven. James Duckett A B C D ... Z Ven. James Duckett Martyr, b. at Gilfortrigs in the parish of Skelsmergh in Westmoreland, England, date uncertain, of an ancient family of that county; d. 9 April, 1601. He was a bookseller and publisher in London. His godfather was the well-known martyr James Leybourbe of Skelsmergh. He seems, however, to have been brought up a Protestant , for he was converted while an apprentice in London by reading a Catholic book lent him by a friend. Before he could be received into the Church, he was twice imprisoned for not attending the Protestant Anglicans on account of its learning and cogency. The jury thereupon reversed its verdict and brought in the prisoner guilty of felony. At the same time three priests, Page, Tichborne, and Watkinson were condemned to death. Bullock did not save himself by his treachery, for he was conveyed in the same cart as Duckett to Tyburn, where both were executed, 19 April, 1601. There is an account, written by his son, the Prior of the English Carthusians at Nieuport (Flanders) of James Duckett's martyrdom. On the way to Tyburn he was given a cup of wine; he drank, and desired his wife to drink to Peter Bullock, and freely to forgive him. At the gallows, his last thoughts were for his betrayer. He kissed him and implored him to die in the Catholic Faith. BEDE CAMM The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume V

176. Contraception And Catholicism - Index Contraception and catholicism, Index, Catholic Information Network (CIN) Church, documents, Pope, saints, Mass readings, Vatican. http://www.cin.org/cf5.html

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177. Journeywomon's Page Read the memoirs and ongoing journal of a former Benedictine nun. An honest and open account of a unique woman's spiritual journey from catholicism to paganism. http://members.tripod.com/~Journeywomon/index.html

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178. Has Roman Catholicism Changed? An Overview Of Recent Canon Law Has Roman catholicism Changed? An Overview of Recent Canon Law Some observers speak of significant reforms taking place within Roman catholicism, http://www.reformed.org/webfiles/antithesis/v1n2/ant_v1n2_canon.html

Go to Antithesis Root Page Has Roman Catholicism Changed? An Overview of Recent Canon Law Thomas Schirrmacher [a] Antithesis , vol. 1, no. 2, 1990 Some observers speak of significant reforms taking place within Roman Catholicism, but an evaluation of recent official pronouncements suggests another course. I. The Starting Point: Use of term "Tradition" in Scripture Before discussing the new Catholic Church Law, I wish briefly to make my own presuppositions clear. I intend to examine the teachings and organizational structure of any church according to the divine revelation found in Holy Scripture. This approach can be briefly applied to the notion of "tradition." The word "tradition" (Gr. paradosis ; Lat. traditio ), in the New Testament, may refer to the act of "passing on" (delivery); or it may point to the content thereof that which was passed on (delivered). Usually, it has to do with the transmission of teachings or instructions. The Biblical use of the term does not in itself imply a valuation: the tradition can be divine or human, true or false. A. Tradition in the OT

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180. Roman Catholic Church that the wooden communion tables in churches should be replaced by stone altars, Puritans accused Laud of trying to reintroduce catholicism. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REcatholic.htm

Roman Catholic Church Spartacus USA History British History Second World War ... Email The Roman Catholic Church is part of the Christian Church ruled by the Bishop of Rome (the Pope). In the early Church the papacy exercised authority over all Christians. In about 575 a monk called Gregory saw some young men in the Rome slave-market. He spoke to them and discovered that these men were from England. After talking to these slaves he was shocked to discover that there were very few Christians living in England. Gregory was determined to change this situation and when he became Pope he sent his friend Augustine and forty monks to England to convert the inhabitants to Christianity. Augustine arrived in England in 596. He made his way to Canterbury, the home of King Ethelbert. Within a few weeks Augustine had converted Ethelbert and most of his household to Christianity. Pleased by his success, the following year Pope Gregory appointed Augustine as Bishop of Canterbury , and Archbishop of the English people.

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